Summary
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has ordered the USDA to reinstate nearly 6,000 fired probationary employees (new hires) for 45 days, citing likely unlawful terminations.
The Trump administration dismissed them starting February 13, claiming their employment wasn’t “in the public interest.”
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel argues the mass firings violated federal workforce laws.
This is the first major case reversing Trump’s federal downsizing efforts, potentially leading to reinstatements of similar terminations across agencies.
Im curious how many will go back. I know I wpuldnt want to go back to a place where I was haphazardly fired for no reason.
If nothing else, it’s a paycheck while you find something else. The job market right now is kinda tough.
The job market isn’t really geared to handle hundreds of thousands of people needing new work all at once. Even without any other resultant cuts, a huge amount of unemployed people is going to be incredibly bad for the economy, and for social stability as a whole.
I mean many might want to because they want to defend the country from this assault.
Please this. PLEASE. I get why people might quit, but you have a rare opportunity to fuck shit up from the inside.
The person who drove the decision to fire you is gonna be gone in a little under four years, whereas the bureaucracy isn’t.
As much as I’d like to see this BS punished, I can sympathize with workers who return to their job. I’m sure a lot of the folks affected would like to respond meaningfully to their unlawful termination but in real life the bills need to be paid.
And that right there, is why people wonder a lot of the time like “Why aren’t Americans just fighting a good fight and staging a revolution?”
Well, you know, it sounds like a grand idea on paper. But the problem with doing that is, is that we’d have to upset our livelihoods, have to explain and rally to all of our friends and family to join a big cause to take the country back. At which would initiate a civil war because it’s not going to go uncontested as we have to fight not only 71 million idiotic americans who oppose us, but we’d have to fight all levels of authority from police to military.
And to do all of that without shedding a drop of blood. Yeah, I’m still waiting on a revolution idea where we can make do without nearly as much of what I described.
